Category Archive for 'Vancouver Observer'

The Globe and Mail story is short and simple – “Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is preparing to bring in a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions, an ambitious move that could amount to the nation’s single largest salvo in the battle against global warming”. Ah, but it gets more complicated. There’s more than one way […]

The recent victory of the Heiltsuk band in Bella Bella over the herring fishery is not only heartwarming, it is significant. It has once again demonstrated that the history and experience of the First Nations can trump the conclusions of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. In 1978, I became Environment Minister for British Columbia […]